From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] why the leading under score added to function names?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:22:17 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202230752140.62608@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201202221917.q1MJHSGw013561@freefriends.org>
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> This is interesting. It shows that (apparently) early on, assembler was
> viewed as the primary programming language.
Well, C didn't exactly spring from Zeus's brow :-) A good chunk of the
C library was in assembler, as were quite a number of programs.
> It also shows the consequences a small, apparently local decision can have:
> here we are 40+ years later and GCC on Windows is still preprending
> underscores to function names!
When it comes to Windoze, nothing surprises me any more. Unix has evolved
over the years, but Windoze was spat out and hatched.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-22 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-22 19:17 arnold
2012-02-22 21:22 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2012-02-22 22:47 ` A. P. Garcia
2012-02-23 4:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2012-02-25 18:45 ` Random832
2012-02-25 19:24 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-25 20:39 ` John Cowan
2012-02-25 22:15 ` Random832
2012-02-26 13:28 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-02-27 1:30 ` random832
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2012-02-20 20:52 arnold
2012-02-20 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-21 0:34 ` Brantley Coile
2012-02-21 2:50 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-21 3:33 ` John Cowan
2012-02-21 3:41 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-21 18:18 ` ron
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